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It is now more than 30 years since Henry Kempe was credited with “rediscovering” child abuse (Kempe, Silverman, Steele, Droegemueller, & Silver, 1962). Since then, there has been a sustained international effort to afford effective protection to children. Yet, today, a large number of children continue to suffer. What is worse, when these children themselves become parents, many are unable to protect their offspring or may actually inflict the suffering they themselves endured. This intergenerational legacy of trauma has become known as the “cycle of abuse.”
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Buchanan, A. (1998). Intergenerational Child Maltreatment. In: Danieli, Y. (eds) International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma. The Plenum Series on Stress and Coping. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4757-5567-1_32
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